It’s that time of the year again..
‘If you don’t use it, get rid of it’
The result of this year on year?
I don’t own many clothes.
As my kids say “Daddy, why do you wear the same clothes every day? You just wear the same Fruci Fit clothes?”
You know what, it sure does make my life easier.
Fruci Fit top, shorts…good to go.
(I do own a suit. The same suit I got married in back in 2014. I also own some jeans haha and one pair of shoes. Again, the same pair of shoes I had at my wedding…)
Why am I sharing this?
Well, it’s why we set you a simple starting plan in the 28 Day Kickstart (message me with ‘Kickstart’ and I will send over the details for our 28 Day Kickstart for women 40+, 50+, 60+, 70+, and 80+ who pretty much know what to do but need the plan and accountability to do it)..
By setting you 3 habits in the areas of: FOOD, FITNESS and FOCUS << setting you 3 things that if you DO, will make everything else easier. There is less to think about ( a bit like me and my wardrobe).
And I know this is really important as despite doing this personal training stuff for the past 17 years and working in the NHS and Public Health along the way…
People are still so confused with the amount of information out there right now.
Eat carbs…don’t eat carbs.
Eat protein…don’t eat protein ..
Do fasting…breakfast is the most important meal of the day…
I get it.
It’s not your fault.
In my experience and opinion, I think it comes from too many people calling themselves ‘nutritionists’ without actually studying a degree / postgraduate qualification and providing nutrition advice without understanding how scientific research is actually done and how to be critical
^^ my time in the journal club at university has now been justified.
But anyway, when it comes to the one to one.
We don’t just set you a cookie cutter plan.
What we prefer to do
Is set you ONE habit based on where you’re at right now.
Take the food side.
I was chatting to someone the other day
Great overall diet, you could call it ‘clean eating’…
Lots of whole, nutritious, unprocessed foods.
Something we already promote
(unless, of course, the GOOD causes the BAD, and then you end up binge eating…more on that another day)
They would eat things like yoghurt, berries, oats and nuts from breakfast. Super nutritious and healthy fats and some protein, and fibre.
Thing is though, they wanted to lose weight.
To lose weight?
They need to be in a calorie deficit.
Now you can justify ‘but nuts have healthy fats in them’ and be correct.
But can you justify the portion size you are having?
After all, a simple portion of nuts will give you the healthy fats you need…
So what did we do?
Well, instead of having nuts at breakfast AND nuts as a snack later…
We simply switched the nuts from the breakfast (it keeps the volume the same but lowers calories)
And just kept them as snacks in the evening.
This way, they have the same number of meals, the same volume of food, they get the healthy fats, but lower calories to create a deficit and help with the weight loss…
Matt ‘Spring Clean’ Fruci
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